OPHELP(1)                                                                                                              OPHELP(1)



NAME
       ophelp - list OProfile events

SYNOPSIS
       ophelp [ options ] [event name]

DESCRIPTION
       By  default, ophelp lists the available performance counter options. If you give it a symbolic event name, it will return
       the hardware value (e.g. "ophelp DATA_MEM_REFS").


OPTIONS
       --cpu-type / -c
              Show the events for the given numerical CPU type.

       --get-cpu-type / -r
              Show the symbolic CPU name.

       --xml / -X
              List events in XML format.

       --help / -? / --usage
              Show help message.

       --version / -v
              Show version.


ENVIRONMENT
       No special environment variables are recognised by ophelp.


FILES
       $prefix/share/oprofile/
              Event description files used by OProfile.

       /var/lib/oprofile/samples/
              The location of the generated sample files.


VERSION
       This man page is current for oprofile-0.9.6.


SEE ALSO
       /usr/share/doc/oprofile-0.9.6/, oprofile(1)



4th Berkeley Distribution                               Tue 07 June 2011                                               OPHELP(1)